Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of Guangdong Province:

        Your Office's "Letter on Begging to Clear Whether Cleaning and Disinfection Products Are Pesticides" has been received. After research, the answers are as follows.

According to Article 2 of the Regulations on the Administration of Pesticide, pesticides refer to chemically synthesized or derived substances used to prevent and control diseases, insects, grasses, rats and other harmful organisms that endanger agriculture and forestry, as well as purposefully regulate the growth of plants and insects. A substance or a mixture of several substances of living things, other natural substances and their preparations. Accordingly, cleaning products and disinfection products such as laundry detergent, hand sanitizer, pipe dredging agent, etc. with functions such as "sterilization" and "acaricide" on the label of your office's letter do not belong to the above-mentioned category of pesticides and are not managed according to pesticides.

                                                           General Office of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs

August 30, 2022